That surely is a great idea. I was just going to lock the thread but now I decided to keep it open for views on Mt.Gox's suggestion. I personally am looking forward for a program which can calculate Potential Activity, and try making it web based
Here's my attempt at a Java-based pseudocode version:
int currenttime = getCurrentTime(); // method to get current time
int starttime = x;
int timesincestart = currenttime - starttime; // gets number of seconds since starttime (aka. x)
int noofactivityperiods = timesincestart / 1210000; calculates no. of activity periods
array activityperiods[noofactivityperiods];
int counter = 0;
while counter <= noofactivityperiods{
**/
{
import "http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=" + userid + ";sa=showPosts"
activityperiods[counter] = counter;
}
counter++ **/
} // creates array with
Well at least I tried.
EDIT: It's way more difficult than I thought. For Java, you would use a scanner object to parse through the posts and then assign each post with a timestamp in unix time. Then you would put these into an arraylist (e.g. 1 = 334827182, 2 = 334899838...). You would then have to parse through the arraylist and sort posts into ANOTHER arraylist containing boolean entries. Then you would count up the boolean entries and multiply by 14 to get the potential activity.
It's actually pretty advanced-level stuff, unfortunately.
EDIT 2: Those comment tags are there because I gave up halfway through typing it since I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the scanner object to navigate through the pages.
